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Written by Bryan Haywood

Parent Category: Safety Info Posts

Category: Chemical Process Safety (PSM/RMP)

Published: 20 August 2014

Last week I shared an article from allgov.com that provided some data on Ammonia releases.  The article was not well received by some folks and others appreciated the info, which is par for the course when you post this kind of material.  But some have gone off the deep-end and called the article "spin" and "propaganda" against ammonia.  For the record, the article's data was NOT 100% factual, but as it turns out it was actually MORE FAVORABLE to ammonia than what my data analysis shows.  The allgov.com article appears to have used other sources, but I used the following sources for my data:

• Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance (HSEES)
• National Toxic Substance Incidents Program (NTSIP)
• The United States Coast Guard National Response Center
• The Right-to-Know Network, RMP Data Base

This posting is to provide factual numbers for the two most widely used PSM/RMP chemicals (NH3 and CL2) and compare uncontrolled releases from their primary containment.

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